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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
	16735@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16735: Not very useful "Keywords:" headers in some elpa packages
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:32:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uteg0lm.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwqgy3ke9.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:12:26 -0500, Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:37:50 -0500")

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:12:26 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: 

>> Why should it?
SM> Because the finder keywords are not magical.  They're just a starting
SM> point for very general classification.  But it makes a lot of sense to
SM> put an "ocaml" keyword on ocaml-mode, tuareg-mode and merlin since all
SM> 3 provide functionality for ocaml.  Similarly it makes a lot of sense to
SM> use a "completion" keyword for company, icomplete, auto-complete,
SM> completion-ui, semantic, etc...

SM> What I mean is that there's no reason to separate the two.  What the UI
SM> could do, OTOH is to only "buttonize" those keywords that appear in more
SM> than one package.

OK, but the original report here was to prune these keywords.  So do I
fix the UI (since I created the buttons) as you suggest or do I prune
the keywords as Glenn suggested?

SM>         Stefan "who doesn't like the finder keywords very much anyway.
SM>                 I mean, «convenience»?  «tools»?"

Yes, I agree, and extra points for the fancy quotations :)

Ted





  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-13 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-13  2:05 bug#16735: Not very useful "Keywords:" headers in some elpa packages Glenn Morris
2014-02-13 14:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-13 16:00   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-13 17:01     ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-13 18:05       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-13 18:08       ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-13 18:16         ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-13 18:21         ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-13 19:12           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-13 19:37             ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-13 19:47             ` Drew Adams
2014-02-13 21:32             ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-02-14  1:50               ` Stefan Monnier

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